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Providing instrumental music teachers, practitioners and students with a pedagogical resource for woodwind instruments found in school instrumental programmes, this work includes coverage of the most common woodwind instruments - flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon.

Instrumental Music --- Woodwind Instruments --- Music --- Woodwind instruments --- Instruction and study.

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In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human fertility, birth and death, and other aspects of human and non-human behaviour. This book explores the cultural significance of flutes, flute playing, and flute players from around the world as interpreted from folktales, myths, and other stories - in a word, 'flutelore'.

Flute in literature. --- Flute --- Boehm flute --- Concert flute --- Transverse flute --- Woodwind instruments --- Folklore. --- History.

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Pulling together what is known of eighteenth-century West Highland piping and pipers and relating this to the effects of changing social conditions on traditional Scottish Gaelic piping since the suppression of the last Jacobite rebellion, Gibson presents a new interpretation of the decline of Gaelic piping and a new view of Gaelic society prior to the Highland diaspora. Refuting widely accepted opinions that after Culloden pipes and pipers were effectively banned in Scotland by the Disarming Act (1746), Gibson reveals that traditional dance bagpiping continued at least to the mid-nineteenth century. He argues that the dramatic depopulation of the Highlands in the nineteenth century was one of the main reasons for the decline of piping.

Bagpipe --- Bagpipe music --- Biniou --- Cornemuse --- Musette (Bagpipe) --- Woodwind instruments --- History. --- History and criticism. --- 78.34.9 --- Bagpipes --- Scotland --- Highlands --- History --- Neuw-Schotland (Canada) --- History and criticism

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In the first fully comprehensive study of one of the world's most iconic musical instruments, Stephen Cottrell examines the saxophone's various social, historical, and cultural trajectories, and illustrates how and why this instrument, with its idiosyncratic shape and sound, became important for so many different music-makers around the world. After considering what led inventor Adolphe Sax to develop this new musical wind instrument, Cottrell explores changes in saxophone design since the 1840's before examining the instrument's role in a variety of contexts: in the military bands that contributed so much to the saxophone's global dissemination during the nineteenth century; as part of the rapid expansion of American popular music around the turn of the twentieth century; in classical and contemporary art music; in world and popular music; and, of course, in jazz, a musical style with which the saxophone has become closely identified.

Saxophone --- Alto saxophone --- Baritone saxophone --- Bass saxophone --- Contrabass saxophone --- Sopranino saxophone --- Soprano saxophone --- Subcontrabass saxophone --- Tenor saxophone --- Tubax --- Woodwind instruments --- History. --- Sax, Adolphe, --- Sax, Antoine Joseph --- Sax, Antoine Joseph,

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This practical guide is intended for all clarinettists with a desire to investigate music of earlier periods. It contains practical help on both the aquisition and playing of historical clarinets, while players of modern instruments will find much advice on style, approach and techniques which combine to make up a well-grounded, period interpretation. The book presents and interprets evidence from primary sources and offers suggestions for further reading and investigation. Most importantly, a series of case studies which include the music of Handel, Mozart and Brahms helps recreate performances which will be as close as possible to the composer's original intention. As the early clarinet becomes increasingly popular worldwide, this guide, written by one of the foremost interpreters of early clarinet music, will ensure that players at all levels - professional, students or amateurs - are fully aware of historical considerations in their performance.

Clarinet --- Clarinet music --- Performance practice (Music) --- 518 --- Recorded accompaniments (Clarinet) --- Clarionet --- Primer clarinet --- Woodwind instruments --- History and criticism --- History --- Organologie --- Clarinet. --- History and criticism. --- Klarinet --- Clarinette --- Klarinetmuziek -- 18de eeuw -- Geschiedenis en kritiek --- Clarinet music -- 18th century -- History and criticism --- Clarinette [Musique de] -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique --- Klarinetmuziek -- 19de eeuw -- Geschiedenis en kritiek --- Clarinet music -- 19th century -- History and criticism --- Clarinette [Musique de] -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique --- Praktijk van de uitvoering (Muziek) -- 18de eeuw --- Performance practice (Music) -- 18th century --- Pratique de l'exécution (Musique) -- 18e siècle --- Praktijk van de uitvoering (Muziek) -- 19de eeuw --- Performance practice (Music) -- 19th century --- Pratique de l'exécution (Musique) -- 19e siècle --- 78.45.2 --- Groot-Brittannië --- 20e eeuw --- Uitvoeringspraktijk